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We need the rain. Good morning to you. Happy veterans day as well. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Of course mike is keeping an eye on the roads for thus morning. Lets talk about it, kari, when is the rain coming back . Well, it looks like itll be here by friday. We do have longer of dry weather across the bay area. Also still very chilly as you head out the door. More clouds moving in today will keep the temperatures more steady. The rain coming in by friday and looks to wrap up earl...

Hernandez for broadcasting this meeting. Do we have any announcements . To protect our commissioners, city employees, and the public, city hall is closed. Lafco members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This is pursuant to the various state and local orders and directives. Commissioners will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda via telephone. Both channel 26 and sfgov. Org are s...

Have lifted the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is being held by teleconference and broadcast on sfgtv. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to sfgtv and sfpuc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you would like to make Public Comment, 4156550001, meeting i. , 1467230055, pound, pound. To enter the queue to speak, press star, three. Madam speaker, the item for closed session is Richard Denton versus city and county of San Francisco et al...

5 00 right now. Covid cases in a nationwide surge. This map shows much of the midwest covered in red meaning a widespread number of new cases. Dark orange shows a significant surge. Thats most of the east coast along with parts of texas which just hit 1 million cases. California a lighter orange but cases here are also on the rise. The cdc has put out its strongest guidance yet on mask wearing citing growing evidence a mask can help protect a person wearing it. The cdc says adopting universal ma...

We get the views of the World Health Organization on the race for drug. Its going to be many, many months before there will be vaccine available throughout the world with a whole population to be joe biden tops award for secretary of state and looks to pack his oval office with establishment figures from ministration agrees the corporation for transition other thanks for joining us, this is r. T. International a russian peacekeeper has been injured. Soldier killed by a landmine in the nagornokar...

Here. Commissioner john burton. Here. Commissioner gail gillman. Here. And commissioner doreen woo ho. All right. Item 2 is approval of minutes of the october 13, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. We have a motion and second and roll call vote, please. Certainly. [roll call]. Commissioner burton wasnt seated on the 13th. Ill go to commissioner gill million. Yes. Commissioner woo ho. Yes. Item 3 is Public Comment on executive session. Thank you. We will open the phone lines to take ...

The third option, which is to cut their own budget. Theres thousands of people in city departments who are making sixfigure salaries. You think they could tighten their belts, quite frankly. Its not too much to ask when so many other businesses, people have lost their jobs or businesses have entirely had to close. I dont see anything thats going to create 2,000 jobs is pie in the sky speculation. Taxing the information sector . Thats whats been driving the San Francisco economy years and years, ...

Welcome to the program. Its been 24 hours since voting ended in the u. S. President ial election and there remains no clear winner democratic challenger joe biden and President Trump along with america and the rest of the world are waiting for results as ballot counting continues in a few key battleground states this election is demanding patience and call from everyone but the president has already claimed victory and hes alleging voter fraud without presenting any evidence joe biden has called...

Made up of folks that have fulltime day jobs. You know, theres limited staff availability to the committee. So maybe just standardize that external audit process as opposed to having it to be something that the committee itself needs to organize every few years. Chair ronen that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that. Maybe you can help to make that happen in the short time that you have left. That would be wonderful. Let us finish w know if you cann any way. And i wanted to make sure that our...

The departments working equity group and drafting a plan that addresses racial and equity issues within the department, as well as we will be proposing ways to address these issues. As a key first step, the department recently distributed a confidential and anonymous Racial Equity survey to all d. B. I. Employees, and i urge all employees to review and participate in this. [inaudible] an Important Survey by the close of october 30. I stress october 30 would be the perfect day to get that in ther...